+++Your British Boxing Heroes From Past+++

one of mine was the viking....steve foster (sr)

i found myself wearing a viking helmet in manchester one night when he fought and beat chris pyatt.....benn v steve collins was headline (the first of the two fights...both in same place in manchester)..and packy collins steves brother was on the bill that night...and sugar boy malinga was on the bill...and herbie hide was on the bill...and the mentioned del bryan...and micheal brodie...

 

Laing was great to watch you never knew which Kirkland would turn up no-one to blame really but himself he never quite got to where he should of but unbeliveably gifted.

Used to enjoy watching Sibson as well real gutsy fighter always used to remember him being on sportsnight or midweek sport special showing my age you younger lot out there don't know how lucky you have it regarding t.v coverage!!Duke Mckenzie,Dave Macauly & old Charlie Magri amongst the smaller men some great entertainment!

 

Less then 24 hours notice to take on a world class fighter in Simon. No Fear.
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Thats Dean Powell in Simons corner aye ?


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PS. Vanzie was a god !!!















PPS. Steve Murrays left bicep was truly not right regarding his frame.

 

I keep telling them mate but they don't ****ing listen!

 

Geoff McCreesh, not exactly a hero of mine, but he did have an utterly heroic moment in his career that I cant forget, so thought I would give him a mention, just for the hell of it:good

 

For reasons I've never understood, Fwank was involved with Simon quite early on. Bizarre life he's had.

 

:good Geoff was a bloody good fighter, remember him smashing scrap iron Ryan to bits early!.

 

I'm surprised Sweet C hasn't been mentioned yet. Joy to watch even if a little fragile.

If one of the North-East lads were here they'd be going on about Billy Hardy.

 

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I can remember Colin in parts, remember Ingle beating him at end of career. Need to watch more of him really he was class as you say.

 

Jon Jo Irwin
Charles Shepard

I remember Irwin fighting someone at gone midnight here on undercard, might of been Pickering. To beat Pickering back then you had to have something about you. Shepard beat Tom 'Boom Boom' Johnson a past it Johnson but still a good win for someone like Charlie.

 

Mand. Sweet C is probabily my favourite domestic fighter. Fundamentally very sound. Just a pity he had cronic shoulder problems which really hampered his career big time. He injured it well before the Palacios fight, which is when the big damage was done, but it was already gone before then. At one point he was our version of Ray Leonard. I love the Stecca fight when he won his strap.

The Ingle fight is hard to watch, because Colin was pretty much done by then.

He was a gent as well, really top fella. Also a smart cookie outside the ring.

 

Yeah i've heard good things about Colin inside and outside the ring, I have no clue why i haven't watched more. I'll have a look at the Stecca fight if it's knocking about on youtube.

You take him to beat on his day:
Brodie
Harrison
Mccullough

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Apologies if a naive question but never saw him in prime.

 

always remember Boxing Monthly touting Sweet C as the next big thing back in the day Slip, I had the edition where it was a blurred Colin on the front cover, obviously a reference to the mans blurring handspeed.

Shame about the dislocated shoulder that never healed properly, rotten luck for the guy.

 

his fans 'UNLEASH McCREESH' banner is one of my favourite boxing memories